How to proceed in the second half of the year? 13 major state-owned energy enterprises, including State Grid, State Power Investment, and Huaneng, are making intensive deployments.

The second half of 2025 is a crucial period for concluding the 14th Five-Year Plan and planning the 15th Five-Year Plan, as well as a critical period for major groups to achieve their annual goals.

Recently, the two power grids and the "five large and six small" power generation state-owned enterprises have held mid-year work conferences, summarizing the operating results of the first half of the year and analyzing existing problems to ensure the full completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan goals and make targeted deployments for key tasks in the second half of the year.

Overall, many state-owned enterprises have made deployments around improving quality and efficiency, new energy (clean energy), and the preparation of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Among them, Huaneng, China Energy Group, and State Power Investment, and other power generation state-owned enterprises have made specific requirements in the field of new energy.

Huaneng pointed out that it is necessary to promote the high-quality development of new energy and adhere to base-type and large-scale development; State Power Investment pointed out that it is necessary to increase the efforts to acquire new energy resources and continuously promote the construction of major projects such as nuclear power, large bases, and offshore wind power; China Energy Group and Huadian both pointed out that it is necessary to increase the development of new energy.

 

Details of the second half of the year work deployment of each state-owned enterprise are shown below:

01

 

State Grid

On July 22, the State Grid Corporation of China held a 2025 second half-year key work promotion meeting in Beijing. Zhang Zhigang, Chairman and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Company, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Pang Xiaogang, General Manager and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Company, summarized the work of the first half of the year and deployed the key tasks for the second half of the year. Zhang Zhigang emphasized the need to solidly advance the implementation of state-owned enterprise reform tasks, focusing on key areas to deepen internal reforms, Accelerate the construction of a unified national electricity market . It is necessary to fully complete the annual target tasks and ensure the successful completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan." We must fully serve the overall economic and social development, better coordinate development and security, and ensure the completion of the annual target tasks. Pang Xiaogang arranged the work tasks for the second half of the year: First, focus on strengthening the foundation and building a safety production defense line; second, shoulder the primary responsibility and resolutely win the battle of power supply during peak summer and flood prevention; third, strengthen overall coordination and scientific planning for the "15th Five-Year Plan"; Fourth, increase factor support and promote high-quality development of the power grid ； Fifth, deepen quality improvement and efficiency enhancement, and continuously improve the company's operating performance ; Sixth, focus on reform efforts and ensure that a number of landmark achievements are made; Seventh, adhere to self-reliance and self-improvement, and promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation; Eighth, strengthen Party building leadership and create a good atmosphere for undertaking tasks and starting businesses.

 

02

 

Southern Power Grid

 

On July 11, the Southern Power Grid Company held a 2025 mid-year work conference. Meng Zhenping, Chairman and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Company, attended the meeting and delivered a speech, and Qian Chaoyang, Director, General Manager, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Company, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech.

Regarding the work deployment for the second half of the year, Meng Zhenping pointed out:

First, study and establish major policies for the company's development, give full play to the guiding and promoting role of policies, and make various measures systematically integrated and various tasks coordinated and efficient.

Second, study and plan a number of major tasks to ensure that various strategic deployments are implemented and effective, and effectively enhance the survivability, competitiveness, development ability, and sustainability in response to changes. It is necessary to further optimize the east and improve the west, strengthen the regional counties, and deepen the construction of a new power system , systematically improve independent innovation capabilities, vigorously develop emerging industries, widely develop artificial intelligence, Comprehensively promote the group's internationalization , focus on enhancing value creation capabilities, deeply promote management transformation, strengthen talent strategic support, and coordinate development and security with higher standards.

Third, study and plan a number of major projects, Promote the concentration of various elements and resources on major projects , and accelerate the formation of physical workload and actual productivity. It is necessary to focus on promoting the expansion of westward power transmission to the east, optimization of the backbone grid, upgrading of new distribution networks, improvement of regulation capabilities, and optimization of power supply services ， Strategic scientific and technological breakthroughs, industrial cluster development, interconnection of surrounding power grids, and doubling of international business , and improvement of disaster resistance capabilities.

Fourth, study and plan a number of major reforms, continuously improve various systems and mechanisms, and promote the development of new productive forces through changes in production relations. It is necessary to improve the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, build a system and mechanism to support comprehensive innovation, Build a high-standard electricity market system, deepen the market-oriented reform of independent operation in naturally monopolistic links and competitive links, Promote changes in the operating mechanism that meet the requirements of high-quality development, and deepen the reform of the construction of the industrial worker team.

Qian Chaoyang pointed out that it is necessary to Ensure the continuous settlement and operation of the Southern Regional Electricity Market , ensure that cross-operating area transactions are stable, regional market operations are stable, market interest patterns are stable, and market reform confidence is stable, accumulating practical experience for the construction of a unified national electricity market.

It is necessary to Ensure the construction of a new power system , plan cross-provincial and cross-regional interconnection, flexible mutual assistance between provinces, and cross-national and cross-border interconnection, Enhance the functions of resource optimization allocation, safety support and guarantee, and energy resource sharing , and plan a southern blueprint for the integrated layout of national power flow.

It is necessary to run the last leg of the "14th Five-Year Plan" well and fully complete the target tasks. Sprint for the ten major goals of the "14th Five-Year Plan", achieving "double high" in operating performance, "double adaptation" in "two types" construction, "double first-class" in customer service, "double empowerment" in science and technology integration, "double breakthrough" in international operations, "double leading" in deepening reforms, "double promotion" in digital transformation, "double improvement" in safety production, "double leap forward" in brand building, and "double benchmark" in the rule of law; grasp the five annual tasks, and implement the tasks of improving quality and efficiency, investment and construction, demonstration benchmarks, safety support, and rectification.

 

03

 

China Energy Group

 

From July 22 to 23, China Energy Group held a seminar for heads of subsidiaries and branches and a promotion meeting to deeply implement the great call of "Socialism is achieved through hard work." The meeting summarized the work of the first half of the year, analyzed the current situation and tasks, and focused on discussing key tasks for the second half of the year and the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Zou Lei, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of the Group, attended the meeting and delivered a speech, and Feng Laifa, General Manager and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, presided over the meeting and delivered a summary speech.

Regarding key tasks for the second half of the year, Zou Lei emphasized that the second half of the year is a crucial period for concluding the 14th Five-Year Plan and planning the 15th Five-Year Plan, as well as a critical period for winning the battle to achieve the year's goals. The main tasks should focus on "stable operations, innovation, optimized investment, strengthened management, and safety assurance" to ensure the completion of the "one profit and five rate" assessment indicators and major production and operation goals, laying a solid foundation for a high-level start to the 15th Five-Year Plan.

First, stabilize operations and resolutely complete the year's goals. We must focus on ensuring energy supply, make every effort to expand markets and increase revenue, and strengthen cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

Second, pursue innovation and fully leverage the leading role of innovation. We must continue to improve the scientific and technological innovation system, accelerate breakthroughs in key core technologies and cutting-edge technologies, and accelerate the construction of "Digital Smart National Energy."

Third, Optimize investment and continuously enhance new development momentum. We must strictly control investment returns, costs, progress, and compliance, continuously improve the coal-based industry, and accelerate the development of high-quality clean energy. 。

Fourth, strengthen management and comprehensively improve efficiency and effectiveness. We must focus on the construction of "four fundamentals," strengthen "four-modernization" management, promote reforms in key areas, and vigorously pursue benchmarking and improvement.

Fifth, ensure safety and effectively prevent and resolve various risks. We must practice the overall national security outlook, focus on safety production, ecological environmental protection, and risk prevention and control.

04

 

State Power Investment Corporation

Recently, the State Power Investment Corporation held a production and operation analysis meeting in July, systematically summarizing the group's production and operation performance in the first half of 2025, analyzing the current situation and shortcomings, and arranging and deploying the next steps.

The meeting pointed out that in the first half of 2025, the State Power Investment Corporation achieved the goal of "half the time, half the task," and its business development, operation control, energy supply, safety and environmental protection, and risk prevention work remained stable, laying the foundation for achieving the annual goals.

The meeting emphasized the need to tap the potential for business efficiency improvement, focusing on the goals of "safety, reliability, efficiency improvement, and cost reduction," comprehensively promoting the construction of smart power stations, and driving the implementation of the "2+N" control model; Maintaining leading performance in volume and price benchmarking, continuously strengthening the construction of the Group's marketing system, and enhancing value creation capabilities.

We must control the entry of projects, actively expand effective investment, increase the intensity of acquiring new energy resources, and continuously promote the construction of major projects such as nuclear power, large-scale bases, and offshore wind power. 。

 

05

 

China Huaneng Group

 

On July 22, China Huaneng Group held its 2025 mid-year work meeting.

At the meeting, Wen Shugang, Chairman and Party Secretary of Huaneng Group, pointed out that as a major state-owned backbone enterprise, Huaneng must thoroughly implement the important instructions and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, bravely shoulder the responsibilities and missions of state-owned enterprises and central enterprises, and continuously create a new situation for high-quality development.

We must firmly shoulder the political responsibility of ensuring energy and power supply, continue to consolidate the stable and positive trend of safety production, and accelerate the construction of an inherently safe enterprise, further strengthening the foundation of safety production;

We must thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization, fully assume the responsibility for rectifying ecological and environmental protection issues, take the inspection as an opportunity to comprehensively improve the company's ecological and environmental protection level, and further promote the rectification of the central ecological and environmental protection inspection;

It is necessary to Unwaveringly promote the high-quality development of new energy, adhere to base-type and large-scale development, build a high-quality "gene engineering" across the entire chain, and further improve the quality and efficiency of green development. ；

It is necessary to Continuously improve market control capabilities, continuously improve the ability to increase revenue and create profits, continuously improve the ability to prevent and resolve operational risks, and further improve business performance;

We must accelerate the creation of national strategic scientific and technological forces, solidly promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, accelerate the construction of "Digital Smart Huaneng," and further promote independent innovation;

We must complete the reform's final tasks with high quality, continuously improve and perfect the market-oriented operation mechanism, accelerate the creation of first-class standards, further promote reform, and ensure the successful completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan with a more proactive and striving attitude.

Wen Shugang also requested that the company accurately grasp the phased requirements of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, adapt to the situation and further optimize the strategic layout, place the development of new high-quality productivity in a more prominent strategic position, take serving the people's energy needs as the fundamental value orientation, and do a high-quality job in formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan.

 

06

 

China Huadian Corporation

 

From July 22 to 23, China Huadian held a 2025 enterprise leader seminar in Beijing.

Jiang Yi, Chairman and Party Secretary of China Huadian, emphasized in the seminar that the second half of the year is a sprint period for completing the goals of the 14th Five-Year Plan. The company should focus on strengthening its core functions and improving its core competitiveness, focusing on improving "five values," paying more attention to "expanding green," "improving quality," and "increasing new," and in accordance with the work requirements of setting goals, accelerating efforts, and ensuring implementation, fully playing "three roles," striving to be "three pacesetters," and ensuring the high-quality completion of annual goals and the 14th Five-Year Plan goals.

Jiang Yi arranged and deployed key tasks:
 

First, establish a firm concept of safe development and make every effort to ensure national energy security. Do a solid job in safety production, enhance energy security and supply capabilities, and steadily improve the level and governance capacity of ecological and environmental protection.

Second, actively expand effective investment and make every effort to accelerate green development. Make every effort to promote the commissioning of key projects, increase the intensity of clean energy development, accelerate the cultivation and expansion of new high-quality productivity, and scientifically formulate a high-quality, guiding, and operational 15th Five-Year Plan. 。

Third, continuously deepen quality improvement and efficiency enhancement, and make every effort to enhance value creation capabilities. Focus on the construction of a new marketing system, differentiate and optimize business strategies, focus on the management of the market value of listed companies, and promote the simultaneous improvement of development quality and investment value.

Fourth, strengthen the attack on key core technologies and make every effort to promote the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. Create a source of innovation with Huadian's advantages in building a new power system, strengthen collaborative innovation and the application of achievements, deepen the "artificial intelligence +" special action, and accelerate the creation of high-value scenario applications.
 

Fifth, complete the tasks of deepening and improving reforms with high quality and make every effort to improve the company's governance level. Focusing on the goal of "three significant achievements," highlighting the functional reforms oriented towards better serving national strategies, deepening institutional and mechanism reforms, enhancing risk prevention capabilities, and ensuring that the tasks of deepening and improving reforms are completed comprehensively and with high quality.

Sixth, we must uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership and fully lead and guarantee high-quality development. We must adhere to governing the Party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, tighten and implement the responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, strengthen the construction of the cadre and talent team, and make innovative progress in publicity, ideology, and cultural work, using high-quality Party building to lead and guarantee high-quality development.

07

 

Datang

 

On July 22, China Datang Group Corporation Limited held its 2025 mid-year work conference.

The meeting emphasized, We must comprehensively promote efficiency improvement in existing assets and efficiency improvement in incremental assets , achieving the preservation and appreciation of state-owned capital, and building a strong economic entity that drives the prosperity of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain. We must continuously strengthen safety production, ensure energy supply in the capital, and accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation , focusing on ecological and environmental protection, and promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation.

We must unswervingly focus on the three major tasks of development, operation, and risk control, scientifically formulate the "15th Five-Year Plan", maintain strategic determination, and strengthen strategic implementation. We must improve comprehensive budget management, implement list-based and transparent management, practice the "specific grasp and specific implementation" work method, adhere to win-win cooperation development, improve asset quality, and actively contribute to the healthy development of the industry.

 

08

 

China Resources

 

On July 22, China Resources Group held its 2025 semi-annual work conference. The conference summarized the achievements of the first half of the year, planned the key tasks for the second half of the year, and ensured the completion of the annual work tasks and the high-quality completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" strategic goals.

At the meeting, Chairman Wang Xiangming put forward the following specific requirements:

We must closely monitor target tasks, seize favorable conditions, and make every effort to achieve the best operating performance. We must adhere to goal orientation, proactively increase pressure, strive to make more contributions, and strive for higher performance goals; we must seize favorable policy opportunities and make full use of them, strengthen the tracking research of policies already issued by relevant departments and future incremental policies, and promote their implementation.

We must closely monitor key measures, maintain strategic determination, and increase efforts to consolidate the good development momentum. We must accelerate the implementation of regional cooperation results; carry out high-quality mergers and acquisitions ; make every effort to win the tough battle of improving quality and efficiency and managing loss-making enterprises; and earnestly carry out the preparation work for the "15th Five-Year Plan".

We must closely monitor reform and innovation, promote transformation and development, and comprehensively enhance the vitality and momentum of reform and development. We must promote the high-quality completion of the reform deepening and improvement action; further enhance scientific and technological innovation capabilities; promote the high-quality development of strategic emerging industries; accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries; and focus on deepening and refining Hong Kong business.

We must closely monitor key risks, adhere to the bottom line of risks, and effectively enhance the ability to ensure safe development. For operating risks, we must adopt different measures for different enterprises to manage the debt-to-asset ratio of business units; for financial risks, we must adhere to the bottom line of not causing disruptive and systemic risks; for safety production risks, we must ensure that the Group's EHS situation remains stable; and for political risks, we must continuously deepen risk investigation and prediction.

 

09

 

Three Gorges

 

On July 25, the Three Gorges Corporation held a 2025 reform and development seminar to fully implement the relevant deployments of the central enterprise leaders' seminar, summarize the work of the first half of the year, and study and deploy key tasks for the second half of the year.

The meeting pointed out that since the beginning of this year, the Three Gorges Corporation has persisted in deeply studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and instructions, coordinating Party building with production and operation, coordinating high-quality development with high-level safety, working together, overcoming difficulties, and successfully achieving "double over-half".

In the second half of the year, we must deeply understand and accurately grasp the severe and complex internal and external situation, maintain confidence and determination, adhere to steady progress, better coordinate the fulfillment of strategic missions and strengthening value creation, continuously enhance core functions and core competitiveness, and complete annual production and operation targets and win the final battle of the "14th Five-Year Plan".

 

10

 

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC)

 

On July 27, CNNC held its 2025 mid-year Party group (enlarged) meeting to summarize the achievements of the first half of the year, arrange key tasks for the second half of the year and the completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan", and plan for the "15th Five-Year Plan" development.

The meeting required that we must implement the fundamental requirements of high-quality development and strive to achieve the completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the annual target tasks. We must focus on improving quality and efficiency and achieving annual operating goals. We must accelerate the implementation of projects and actively expand effective investment . We must strengthen scientific and technological innovation and cultivate new productive forces. We must coordinate development and security and prevent and resolve major risks.
We must formulate the "15th Five-Year Plan" to a high standard and promote comprehensive deepening reforms with greater efforts. We must undertake national strategic planning, strengthen coordination with ministries and commissions and local governments, coordinate the layout of the capability system, learn and apply advanced concepts, tools, and methods, and scientifically formulate the "15th Five-Year Plan". We must further comprehensively deepen reforms, deepen organizational data governance, combine digital transformation, optimize organizational structure, improve overall control capabilities, and promote the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity.
 

 

11

 

China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN)

 

On July 21, China General Nuclear Power Group Co., Ltd. held its 2025 mid-year work conference and analysis meeting on the operating activities of the first half of the year to summarize the work of the first half of the year, clarify the key tasks for the second half of the year, and deploy and mobilize the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan".

Regarding the arrangements for the second half of the year and the "15th Five-Year Plan", the meeting pointed out:

We must make every effort to complete the annual target tasks. Focusing on ensuring safety, stabilizing operations, and grasping projects, we must ensure safety and quality with greater efforts, further consolidate the foundation for development, target "one profit and five rates, one increase and one stability, and four improvements", and earnestly grasp stable operations, We must actively plan and promote major projects , adding impetus to the development of the "15th Five-Year Plan".

We must deepen lean operation to establish a cost advantage. In the face of new market changes, we must hone our internal skills, do our own thing well, and truly enhance the sense of urgency to deepen lean operations, We must vigorously promote cost control across all fields and the entire chain , further strengthen innovation for efficiency, use our own certainty to deal with external uncertainty, and focus on improving quality and efficiency on the basis of consolidating safety and quality.

We must persistently promote comprehensive deepening reforms. We must adhere to problem orientation and goal orientation, complete the reform deepening and improvement action with high quality, plan the next stage of reforms to a high standard around focusing on the main responsibilities and businesses, improving efficiency and effectiveness, and forging market-oriented capabilities, and use high-efficiency reforms to promote the construction of new production relations and provide institutional and mechanism guarantees for the development of new productive forces.

 

12

 

China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP)

 

On July 21, CECEP held its 2025 mid-year work conference to summarize the Group's work in the first half of the year and deploy key tasks for the second half of the year and the future period.

At the meeting, Liao Jiasheng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Energy Conservation Group Corporation, demanded that in accordance with the "stable, optimized, secured, and promoted" work requirements of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, various business measures should be vigorously promoted, major risks should be prevented and resolved with all efforts, the final battle of the in-depth reform and upgrading action of state-owned enterprises should be won, the ability to create value should be continuously improved, the "15th Five-Year Plan" should be earnestly implemented, learning and education should be focused on, and with the spirit of seizing the day and striving for excellence, the implementation of the second half of the year's work should be vigorously grasped to ensure the completion of the annual goals and tasks, laying a solid foundation for the successful completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the start of the "15th Five-Year Plan".

 

13

 

State Development & Investment Corporation

 

On July 25, the State Development & Investment Corporation held its 2025 mid-year work conference.

At the meeting, Fu Gangfeng, Chairman and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the State Development & Investment Corporation, demanded that in the second half of the year, the implementation of key tasks should be promoted, efforts should be concentrated on promoting the cultivation of biomanufacturing and biobreeding industries, industrial funds should be expanded and strengthened, structural optimization should be continuously promoted, the in-depth reform and upgrading action should be grasped, and the development of the group's digitalization and artificial intelligence should be accelerated with greater determination and greater efforts.

It is also necessary to practically promote the effective construction of a professional operation and management platform for subsidiaries, further strengthen the synergy between the headquarters, subsidiaries, and holding investment enterprises, promote subsidiaries to focus on their main businesses and highlight their expertise, strengthen the work of reshaping the institutional system, and effectively play a good role in managing, serving, and empowering investment enterprises, achieving effectiveness in the construction of a professional operation and management platform.

Source: Fengmang Energy